Thursday, August 12, 1999
Residents want aquatic center
Second survey will look at feasibility
BY JANICE MORSE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — According to a survey, most citizens would like the city to build an aquatic center.
But city officials said further research is needed to determine whether residents would actually use such a facil ity, how it would be funded and what would happen to the city's four existing public pools.
“I still am very hesitant to make any decision that leaves four pools out there unused and land underutilized,” Vice Mayor Adolf Olivas told fellow City Council members Wednesday. “Once we take this step, we're in deep water for a long time.”
City Manager Steve Sorrell said he would favor a year-round facility, although he estimated it would cost around $6 million. Council members informally gave Mr. Sorrell approval to proceed with a feasibility and market study, which would show whether residents would actually support a facility, make recommendations for its features and suggest how the city should pay for it.
The action follows a telephone survey conducted by Miami University Middletown's Applied Research Center. (The survey has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.) Tina Elswick, project coordinator, presented the findings to City Council in a work session Wednesday.
Mayor Tom Nye noted that the city's new Youth Commission, a group of teens selected to help guide public policy, intends to make recommendations about the features young people would want to have included in an aquatic-recreational center.
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